Subject: Rubio said it out loud
The US attacked Iran, because Israel was going to attack Iran. If Israel attacked, Iran would retaliate against US bases, so, to protect USians at the bases, the US attacked first.

...with brings up the musical question, if the US was it's own master, it would demand Israel not attack. If the US is Israel's slave, then the US follows Israel's lead. So much for "America first".

US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel’s plan to launch attack, Rubio says

Israel’s determination to attack Iran and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said, in a new explanation for Washington’s surprise entry into the conflict.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

USian Proles are in harm's way.

At least 22 people killed in Pakistan as protesters try to storm US Consulate

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and in the country’s north left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate on Sunday, authorities said.

https://apnews.com/article/pak...

Protesters try to storm Baghdad zone housing US embassy: Security source

Hundreds of Iraqis attempted Sunday to storm Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, where the US embassy is located, after the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, an AFP journalist reported.

“Their attempts had been thwarted so far, but they keep trying,” a security source told AFP.

https://english.alarabiya.net/...

This thing could go sideways in sudden and unsettling ways, but that is only a problem for the regime, if there are free and fair elections this fall.

Some 70% of USians did NOT want another war in the Middle East, but that is only a problem for the regime, if there are free and fair elections this fall.

Gas has been about $3/gallon in Michigan. It could easily go to $5, $6, $7/gallon, but that is only a problem for the regime, if there are free and fair elections this fall.

Steve